I'm Matt Coates, a PhD candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA, advised by Dr. Onyebuchi Arah. My dissertation work uses causal inference frameworks and their graphical tools to clarify causal questions and reason about sources of bias in cancer epidemiology and vaccine effectiveness research. I am a member of the Practical Causal Inference Lab at UCLA.
I have also worked as a researcher with the Lancet Commission on Reframing Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and Injuries for the Poorest Billion in the Program in Global Noncommunicable Disease and Social Change at Harvard Medical School and with the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity and NCDI Poverty Network in my role in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital. My work focused on describing associations between NCDs and poverty-related risks, estimating potential impact of implementing health system interventions to increase coverage of care for NCDs in countries with low levels of coverage, and incorporating metrics for equity into priority setting processes for NCD-related policy and implementation.
I earned a Master's of Public Health in Global Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington during a fellowship at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). During my time at IHME, I primarily worked on demographic estimates for the Global Burden of Disease Study, particularly all-cause mortality. As an undergraduate, I studied Neurobiology at Harvard University, with a minor in Global Health and Health Policy.
Contact/Links
mmcoates[at]ucla[dot]edu